Summerville Primary School's Trip

Summerville Primary School was very lucy to have been invited to go on a canal trip on the Bridgewater canal on Monday 2nd October 2006. We are very proud to be the City of Salfords 1st Green Flag Eco-School.

Our Year 4 class want to thank everyone in the Mersey Basin Campagn for a really wonderful day. The children had a great time they are still talking about it. The class teacher has used the trip in many areas of the curiculum.

Here are some of the poems the class has writen. I have typed them as the children have written them. We hope you enjoy them:-



Number 1

Flats, factorys passing by,
Buildings, boats coming round,
The coloured water drifting slowly,
The ducks swimming steadily,
Light house clashing bright,
The heron flying away,
There goes our day.

By Lucy Hughes


Number 2

There goes the sparkling sun shining like stars,
Then the boat drifts along you can call it a barge,
When a boat goes by you can say “hi!”
Don’t be shy,
Don’t be bored, have fun,
Just like Mum having a bottle of rum,
When you go sown the hill,
You can all lean on the window sill,
When you look out the window you will see cans,
And you will see a big fat tram like super fans
Who ho we stop at a halt,
And I swallow sea salt.

By Grace Hall

Number 3

We went on a canal barge,
And it went along like a sarge,
The barge of a sarge,
Was drifting merrily along the canal.

The skipper was called Dave,
And he was a fine on too,
He got nicer and nicer
And his barge was very grand too!

By Katie O’Sullivan

Number 4

The canal is rippling and lapping against the barge,
The tall old factory’s still standing tall and strong,
Going to last long,
The barge steadily and slowly, drifting gracefully,
Strolling through the water slowly.
Round the corner we saw a stripy, tall lighthouse,
Then we went round the end of the bend.

By Samee Malik

Number 5

The canal boat is wonderful,
it is bright and sparkly too.
It is the engine that is strong and firseful specktacukar too,
It is drifting, swirling,
calm also slow.
Swans swaying,
birds singing cathing flys.
Huge hotels old flats
Canal boat still swirling

The canal boat is wonferful,
It is bright and sparkely too.
It is the enging is strong, firseful, specktacular too.
It is drifting, swirling,
Calm also slow.
Swans swayling birds singing
Flys getting caught
Huge flats old flats,
Canal boat still swirling

By Ben Lockett